12 APIS MELLIFICA; OR, 



general improvement sets in; if the medicine is 

 continued beyond the point where the organism is 

 saturated with the drug, it acts as a hostile agent, 

 not as a curative remedy. This important point is 

 known by the fact, that the improvement which 

 had already commenced, seems to remain station- 

 ary ; the patient experiences a distressing urging to 

 stool, a burning diarrhoea sets in, and a dispropor- 

 tionate feeling of malaise develops itself. Under 

 these circumstances, a globule of Apis 30 will quiet 

 the patient, and the action of the drug will achieve 

 the cure without any further difficulty, and without 

 much loss of time, unless psora, sycosis, syphilis, or 

 vaccine-virus prevail in the organism, or sulphur, 

 iodine or mercury had been previously given in 

 large doses. In the presence of such complica- 

 tions Apis will prove ineffectual until they have 

 been removed by some specific antidote. After 

 having made a most careful diagnosis, a single dose 

 of the highest potency of the specific remedy be 

 given, and be allowed to act as long as a trace of 

 improvement is still perceptible. As soon as the 

 improvement ceases, or an aggravation of the symp- 

 toms sets in. Apis is in its place and wiQ act most 

 satisfactorily. We then give Apis 3 in water, 

 as mentioned above, with the most satisfactory 

 success. 



Apis is the most appropriate remedy for inflamma- 

 tion of the tongue, mouth and throat. 



The following symptoms may be looked upon as 

 striking curative indications: 378-380, 383, 384, 

 399, 400, 405, 406, 409, 410, 413, 419, 436, 437, 



